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NREL National Solar Radiation Database

Provided by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative

NREL National Solar Radiation Database

Provided by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory , part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative

This product is part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative and contains data sets that are publicly available for anyone to access and use. No subscription is required. Unless specifically stated in the applicable data set documentation, data sets available through the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative are not provided and maintained by AWS.

Description

Released to the public as part of the Department of Energy's Open Energy Data Initiative, the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB)  is a serially complete collection of hourly and half-hourly values of the three most common measurements of solar radiation – global horizontal, direct normal, and diffuse horizontal irradiance — and meteorological data. These data have been collected at a sufficient number of locations and temporal and spatial scales to accurately represent regional solar radiation climates.

License

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License

Documentation

https://nsrdb.nrel.gov/ 

How to cite

NREL National Solar Radiation Database was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/nrel-pds-nsrdb .

Update frequency
Annually
Support information

Managed by: National Renewable Energy Laboratory 

Contact: nsrdb@nrel.gov

General AWS Data Exchange support
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Resources on AWS

Description

NREL Solar Radiation Datasets 

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/
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Description

NSRDB  v3 4km x 30min data (1998-2018) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/
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Description

NSRDB  v3 typical meteorological years (TMY) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tmy/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tmy/
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Description

NSRDB  v3 typical direct years (TDY) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tdy/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tdy/
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Description

NSRDB  v3 typical global years (TGY) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tgy/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/tgy/
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Description

NSRDB  synthetically downscaled 2km x 5min for Puerto Rico (1998-2017) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/puerto_rico/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/v3/puerto_rico/
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Description

NSRDB  2km-5min data for the Contiguous United States (CONUS) starting with 2018 in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/conus/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/conus/
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Description

NSRDB  2km-10min data for the all of the Western Hemisphere (GOES full-disc) starting with 2018 in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/full_disc/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/full_disc/
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Description

NSRDB  4km-15min data from the Meteosat satellites starting in 2017 in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/meteosat/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/meteosat/
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Description

NSRDB  4km-10min data from the Himawari satellites starting in 2015 in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/himawari/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/himawari/
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Description

NSRDB  Suny-India data (2000-2014) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/india/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/india/
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Description

Meteorological Statistical Model 1 (MTS1) data (1961-1990) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/mts1
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/mts1/
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Description

Meteorological Statistical Model 2 (MTS2) data (1991-2005) in HDF5  format

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-nsrdb/mts2
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-nsrdb/mts2/
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Description

HSDS  NSRDB domains

Resource type
S3 Bucket
Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
arn:aws:s3:::nrel-pds-hsds/nrel/nsrdb/
AWS Region
us-west-2

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://nrel-pds-hsds/nrel/nsrdb/
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Usage examples

Publications
Tools & Applications
  • HSDS Examples  by Caleb Phillips, Caroline Draxl, John Readey, Jordan Perr-Sauer, Michael Rossol
  • NSRDB Viewer  by Manajit Sengupta, Yu Xe, Anthony Lopez, Aron Habte, Galen Maclaurin, James Shelby, Paul Edwards

Links

View this dataset on Github 

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